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Geoscience reveals secrets

If you look carefully at a mountain range, you can often see how layers of rock have been deformed into structures that look like “waves” – these waves are called folds by geologists. The folding is caused by forces operating in the Earth’s crust.

A majority of earthquake and volcanic activity occurs above plate boundaries.

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